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> Really nice story in the New York Times: > > Exposing an Ancient Rock and the Bigger Picture > > By ANDY NEWMAN > > It's not every day that a great big rock shows up on > your block. > > But it happened on Vanderbilt Avenue in Fort Greene, > Brooklyn. The > rock is jagged, seven feet tall, very roughly > nose-shaped, and > covered with a fine, tawny dust. A contractor > digging a sewer line > yanked it out of the street bed on Tuesday and > plunked it down at the > curbside near Park Avenue. > > Since then, life on Vanderbilt Avenue has been > subtly transformed. > Adults study the rock. Children trace shapes in its > dusty face. Its > gravitational force seems to have slowed life a > notch. For those who > have come to love the rock, it is a reminder that > under the crust of > the city lies the entire planet. > > "It's really kind of a visceral thing," said > Christopher P. Moore, a > member of the city's Landmarks Preservation > Commission who lives up > the block from the rock. "You feel rocks, you feel > the earth." > > Susan Raskin came home from work on Tuesday to find > her dog barking > at the rock in front of her house. Her cat seemed > spooked by it, too. > Ms. Raskin, a children's social worker, was not > scared. She thought > the rock was one of the most lovely things she had > ever seen. > > "Maybe it wouldn't be a big deal if I lived in > Colorado and there > were mountains," she said yesterday morning as she > stood beaming at > the rock. "But I live here. This is a big thing." > > Read more (and see a photo of the rock) at: > http://tinyurl.com/yd4coa Now that's a rock! Someone should hose it off. If cats are afraid of it and dogs bark at it it might be special in some way. I've come to trust the reactions of animals to various people and objects. > > > > > > To subscribe, send a message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Or go to: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ > and click 'Join This Group!' > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Access over 1 million songs - Yahoo! Music Unlimited (http://music.yahoo.com/unlimited) To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
